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Type 2 Diabetes: Causes, Complications and Treatment
Type 2 diabetes is the world's fastest-growing chronic disease, affecting over 500 million adults worldwide. This guide covers insulin resistance, how chronic hyperglycaemia damages blood vessels and nerves, HbA1c monitoring, lifestyle intervention, oral medications, GLP-1 receptor agonists, insulin therapy, and preventing serious complications.
Diabetic Retinopathy: Causes, Screening and Treatment
Diabetic retinopathy is the most common cause of new blindness in working-age adults in developed countries, caused by chronic hyperglycaemia damaging retinal blood vessels. This guide covers the progression from non-proliferative to proliferative retinopathy and macular oedema, how retinal screening saves sight, and treatment with laser, anti-VEGF injections, and vitrectomy surgery.
Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD): Causes and Treatment
Age-related macular degeneration is the leading cause of severe vision loss in adults over 50 in developed countries, destroying central vision through drusen accumulation, geographic atrophy, or choroidal neovascularisation. This guide covers dry and wet AMD, how anti-VEGF injections have transformed wet AMD treatment, and monitoring with OCT and Amsler grid.
Glaucoma: The Silent Thief of Sight
Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases in which elevated intraocular pressure progressively damages the optic nerve, causing irreversible visual field loss. It is the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide. This guide covers open-angle and angle-closure glaucoma, how elevated IOP damages the optic nerve, diagnostic tests, eye drop therapy, laser, and surgery.
Cataract: Causes, Symptoms and Surgery
A cataract is a clouding of the eye's natural lens, causing progressive blurring of vision and the leading cause of reversible blindness worldwide. This guide covers how cataracts form, symptoms and grading, when surgery is needed, and how phacoemulsification cataract surgery restores vision in 15 minutes.
Epilepsy: Causes, Types and Treatment
Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder defined by recurrent unprovoked seizures, affecting 50 million people worldwide. This guide covers how seizures arise from abnormal brain electrical activity, the main seizure types, EEG and MRI in diagnosis, antiseizure medications, and when epilepsy surgery can offer a cure.
Alzheimer's Disease: Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia, accounting for 60–70% of cases worldwide. This guide explains how amyloid plaques and tau tangles destroy brain cells, the progression from mild cognitive impairment to severe dementia, how diagnosis is made, current medications, and emerging disease-modifying therapies.
Parkinson's Disease: Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment
Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder, caused by the progressive loss of dopamine-producing neurons in the brain's substantia nigra. This guide covers the four cardinal motor features, non-motor symptoms, diagnosis, levodopa and dopamine agonist therapy, deep brain stimulation surgery, and the outlook for Parkinson's patients.
Stroke: Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
Stroke is the second leading cause of death worldwide and the most common cause of adult disability — caused by sudden blockage or rupture of a brain artery, killing brain cells within minutes. This guide covers ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke, TIA as a warning sign, time-critical treatment with thrombolysis and thrombectomy, and stroke rehabilitation.
Sciatica: Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
Sciatica is shooting pain radiating from the lower back down the leg along the path of the sciatic nerve, usually caused by a lumbar disc herniation compressing a nerve root. This guide covers causes, how to tell sciatica from other leg pain, diagnostic MRI, and treatment from nerve root injections to microdiscectomy.
Neck Pain and Cervical Spondylosis: Causes and Treatment
Neck pain affects two-thirds of adults at some point and is the fourth leading cause of disability globally. This guide covers cervical spondylosis, disc herniation, radiculopathy and myelopathy — how the cervical spine degenerates, when MRI is essential, and treatment from physiotherapy and injections to cervical spine surgery.
Low Back Pain: Causes, Diagnosis and Treatment
Low back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide, affecting 80% of adults at some point in their lives. This guide covers the common causes — from muscle strain to disc herniation, spinal stenosis and sciatica — how MRI helps with diagnosis, and the full treatment pathway from physiotherapy to spinal surgery.
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How fast can I schedule a medical visit?
We handle the booking; the hospital sets the appointment date.
What is included in a full body screening?
A comprehensive executive checkup with imaging and lab work.
When will I get my results?
Report timing is set by the hospital and varies by package.
What is China's 30-day unilateral visa-free policy?
Many countries can enter China without a visa for short stays.
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